{"id":147628,"date":"2022-10-05T23:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/avast-releases-free-decryptor-for-hades-ransomware-variants"},"modified":"2022-10-05T23:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:24:37","slug":"avast-releases-free-decryptor-for-hades-ransomware-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/avast-releases-free-decryptor-for-hades-ransomware-variants","title":{"rendered":"Avast releases free decryptor for Hades ransomware variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/avast-releases-free-decryptor-for-hades-ransomware-variants2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Avast has released a decryptor for variants of the Hades ransomware known as \u2018MafiaWare666\u2019, \u2018Jcrypt\u2019, \u2018RIP Lmao\u2019, and \u2018BrutusptCrypt,\u2019 allowing victims to recover their files for free.<\/p>\n<p>The security company says it discovered a flaw in the encryption scheme of the Hades strain, allowing some of the variants to be unlocked. However, this may not apply to newer or unknown samples that use a different encryption system.<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing Avast\u2019s tool, victims of the supported ransomware variants can decrypt and access their files again without paying a ransom to the attackers, which ranges between $50 and $300. However, ransom demands reached tens of thousands in some cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avast has released a decryptor for variants of the Hades ransomware known as \u2018MafiaWare666\u2019, \u2018Jcrypt\u2019, \u2018RIP Lmao\u2019, and \u2018BrutusptCrypt,\u2019 allowing victims to recover their files for free. The security company says it discovered a flaw in the encryption scheme of the Hades strain, allowing some of the variants to be unlocked. However, this may not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}